This week over on the s--- I've written about rugby and how English metre is a lot less syllabic than we are sometimes told. vamoul.substack.com/p/on-rugby-a...
Free associating from behind the touch-line
My review of Camille Ralphs' fascinating debut collection, After You Were, I Am, is published today in Wild Court. wildcourt.co.uk/wit-and-word...
This week over on the substack I've written about one man, John Polwhele's, verse collection from the early 1630s and what it tells us about George Herbert's reputation and readership at the time of his death. vamoul.substack.com/p/stay-lovel...
George Herbert, translation, and the vagaries of literary reputation
The question is: did Pepys also have ham and chips at his local four centuries ago as I did today? The Black Bull in Brampton, just along from his uncle's/father's house. This poem about him is from my Selected, The Interpretation of Owls, edited by @kg520.bsky.social#poems#literature
What a tremendous relief, after 9 years as chair of Baylor University’s English department, to be returning to ordinary academic life.
My review of Peter Vertacnik’s prize-winning debut collection appears in PN Review 278. It’s a brilliant book, and I strongly urge you to read it. Find out why here: www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri....
Very excited about the arrival of this, from Clemson UP and Liverpool UP. I’m anticipating a decidedly Catholic and Jacobite portrait in this long-awaited bio from the late Howard Erskine-Hill.